Clay Waters

Clay Waters is director of Times Watch, a division of the Media Research Center (MRC) that tracks the liberal bias of the New York Times. You can follow Times Watch on Twitter and Facebook.

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The Times' Obama-Care Optimism Remains Unquenched

Reporter David Herszenhorn's eternal (and so-far misguided) optimism on the prospects for Obama-care once again burns bright in Thursday's lead story on health-care reform push, Showdown Near ...

Health Insurance: Your Ticket to Eternal Life

Nicholas Kristof unwittingly reveals the secret to immortality in a column pushing for greater access to health care.

GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, Not Obama-Care, to Blame for Voters Cynicism

Voter cynicism? Blame that obstructionist Republican leader Mitch McConnell: "In the process, Mr. McConnell, 68, a Kentuckian more at home plotting tactics in the cloakroom than writing ...

5 Years Later, NYT Still Piling on Lawrence Summers for Remarks About Women in Science

Harvard's "a different place" without its former president, Lawrence Summers, who left under fire for daring to make an academic statement about women's aptitude for science and math during an ...

NYT's Main Economic Writer Reverses Himself on Obama's Tax-Cut Pledge for Earners Under $250K

David Leonhardt, who supported Obama's pledge to cut taxes for those making under $250,000 in the name of fighting "inequality," today admits your taxes will have to go up "however much you make."

David Barstow's NYT Hit Piece on Tea Party Wins Left-Wing Journalism Award

New York Times investigative reporter David Barstow's paranoid February 16 front-page piece on an Idaho chapter of the Tea Party movement won a left-wing foundation's monthly journalism award.

A Benign View of the 'Slaughter' House Rule to Pass Obama-Care Without a Vote

While the Times contents itself with a blog post Tuesday portraying Pelosi's proposal as benign, The Washington Post takes the story seriously, putting it on the front page under a blunt headline: ...

David Barstow's Hit Piece on Tea Party Wins Left-Wing Journalism Award

Investigative reporter David Barstow's paranoid February 16 front-page piece on an Idaho chapter of the Tea Party movement won a left-wing foundation's monthly journalism award.

Poland's 'Daughters of Capitalism' Sign of Post-Communist 'Moral Decadence'

In one of many ideologically loaded sentences in his story from Warsaw, reporter Dan Bilefsky claimed the movie Mall Girls" has provoked a national debate about moral decadence in this ...

Times Touts White House's Official Health-Care Victim Two Days Running

For the second day in a row, the Times highlighted a health-care anecdote that Obama wanted highlighted - the sad story of Ohio resident Natoma Canfield, Obama's poster woman for victims of rising ...

Is Obama's Health-Care Resurrection Nigh?

Some see religious iconography in a puzzling photo of Obama on the front of the Times Week in Review.

Al Franken, 'Moderate'? Even the Times' Public Editor Sees Something Awry

Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt devotes a rare column to labeling bias suggesting conservatives have legitimate complaints with the paper's "conservative" (and "neoconservative") labeling habits.

G.O.P.'s 'Anti-Tax Hardliners' in Way of Obama's Debt-Reducing Tax Hikes

After passionate defending Obama during the campaign against GOP charges that he would raise taxes, Times reporters are now almost begging him to do so in the name of debt-reduction.

Friedman Again Hails Communist China's 'One-Party Autocracy' as Superior to American Democracy

Columnist Thomas Friedman just can't stop praising an authoritarian regime: "I've been saying for awhile Tom, there's only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, the Chinese form of government, ...

Times Still Calling 'Haditha' a Crime, Despite Acquittals of Marines

From the cover of the Times Sunday Book Review: "Of all the crimes that sullied the record of the United States military in Iraq - the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the killings of 24 Iraqi ...

Former NYT Editor Howell Raines Drums Fox News Out of Journalism for Anti-Obama 'Propaganda '

Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines accuses Fox News of "a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration" that's "without precedent in our modern political history" and ...

Double Standards: Glenn Beck's 'Ignorant,' 'Insulting' Remarks on Churches, But Silence on Olbermann's Nazi Attack on Jew

While Glenn Beck "managed to insult just about every mainline" Christian church in the country with controversial remarks about social justice, left-wing host Keith Olbermann makes Nazi ...

Anti-Military Paranoid Piece 'Green Zone' Hailed by Top Times Movie Critic A.O. Scott

Michael Moore fan and Times movie critic A.O. Scott finds a left-wing fantasist version of the Iraq War featuring murderous U.S. soldiers and top brass an impressive sense of scruples. They have ...

While Post Fronts Latest Rep. Massa Developments, NYT Files Incomplete AP Brief on A-12

The Massa story moves forward, as reports surfaced that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office had been alerted to Massa's behavior with young male staffers back in October and the GOP moved to ...

Former Editor Howell Raines Drums Fox News Out of Journalism for Anti-Obama 'Propaganda Campaign'

Howell Raines accuses Fox News of "a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration" that's "without precedent in our modern political history" and accuses the network of having "overturned ...